Future Networks & Communications

Bio-inspired Networking – Challenges and Opportunities

By Dr. Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen

By Dr. Sabrina Sicari

By Iacopo Carreras (CREATE-NET)

Authors: Mirko Gremes (Algorab) - Antonio Francescon (CREATE-NET)

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are known to be affected by scalability, cost, and maintainability constraints that may limit their applicability in practical applications. This article describes the hands-on experience gained by the authors in developing an innovative solution to a real-life challenge, the remote detection of ice formation on mountain road surfaces. A combination of multihop routing and nomadic routing, together with inferred detection of ice formation, solved the scalability and cost issues. On the other hand, the lessons learned concerning maintainability of the system clearly indicated areas of further improvement for optimizing the services and guaranteeing profitability. 

Author: Elio Salvadori, Roberto Doriguzzi (CREATE-NET)
Email: name.surname@create-net.org

Abstract: While current Internet seems to face a dramatic crisis due to the extreme ossifications induced by the current world-wide spread architecture, the scientific community is lately pushing toward the adoption of network virtualization techniques to overcome this impasse. In spite of the amount of open-issues which must be properly solved on the research side yet, initial results obtained from preliminary projects on network virtualization are confirming the strong potentiality of this technology. The objective of this article is to emphasize the impact of network virtualization as a tool to foster innovation both on the service and on network infrastructures side.

By Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel K. Correa and Julie A. Hedlund
May 01, 2008

It is hard to follow broadband telecommunications policy without hearing almost weekly that the United States ranks 15th out of 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations in broadband adoption. But it is much less apparent why the United States is behind. Indeed, relatively little work has been done to understand why some nations are ahead, and why some, like the United States, are lagging. By examining OECD nations through statistical analysis and in-depth case studies of nine nations, including the United States, this report attempts to do just that.

By Radoslaw Piesiewicz (CREATE-NET)

There is evidence that the economic growth of a developed community such as the European Union is strongly related to a growing base of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources. The radio part of the ICT is gaining increased shares in voice and broadband data communications with the sophisticated technological developments coming along in recent years. In order to keep the European gross domestic product continuously growing a variety of enabling key applications is required in significant volumes.

Broadband Stakeholders Group Event, London, 9th June 2008